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A Model Detective

 
 

Felicia Bownoth
Home: Jamaica
Age: 21
Height: 5’ 2"
Weight: 110 lbs
Stats: 32-25-34


Felicia has been modeling just a short while now, just barely a year, doing promo for print and a clothing line, as well as some car show work.

Modeling was something she just fell into, Felicia realizes that this is just going to be a part-time job.

“It is not my major focus,” she said. “It is something I fell into by chance, just from people saying, ‘You’re cute, you should try it.’”

While not in front of the camera Felicia is getting her Masters degree from John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Se already has a bachelor’s in forensic psychology and sees a bright future once her research work is done.

“I could basically do anything in the legal field having to with psychology,” she said.

Don’t expect Felicia to be the FBI’s next Clarice Starling, though – chasing down serial killers isn’t on her to-do list.

“Right now my options are changing,” she said.

Felicia was born and raised in Queens, growing up in Astoria and later moving to Richmond Hill. A graduate of Cardozo High School, she spends a lot of time hanging out with family.

“I spend a lot of time with my sister Melanie [who is 16], we go to Broadway shows, to museums and out shopping,” Felicia said. She also gets a lot of encouragement in her career from her boyfriend, Brian, who she has been best friends with since high school. “He’s super supportive,” she said.

Felicia likes going out to eat after a long day in the city, and as a proud vegetarian knows where to find the best meat-free restaurants.

“This was a personal choice because I believe in animal rights,” she said. “I don’t think it’s fair to take another living creature’s life just to eat it.”

Besides, she’d never be able to explain it to her cat AJ.

Trump on Tour

 
It seems that uber-mogul Donald Trump is at it again.

The Jamaica-Estates born real-estate royal recently found himself standing Armani-to-kilt with a Scottish farmer who refused to sell Trump his prized lot so he can turn it into a golf course.

And Trump toured the talk circuit last week trumpeting his latest tome, “Think BIG and Kick Ass in Business and Life.”

Never one to hold his tongue, the Donald yapped about everything from the war in Iraq to the alarmingly (to him, at least) diminutive stature of George Clooney.

We smell another best-seller from the King from Queens.

 


 


Shea Record Holder?

 
 

For most of us the commute to work could be long, monotonous and an overall pain in the you-know-what. But that is not the case for Bobby Lee.

Four years ago the retired firefighter and his family moved to Oak Grove Missouri, but Lee was not willing to give up his side job as a vendor selling cotton candy at Shea Stadium.

Lee, 48, has been a vendor at the stadium since he was 16 and lived two subway stops away.

His commute now includes an early drive to the airport a two hour plane journey and a drive from the airport to the ballpark. So, maybe he stays for a couple of games. He does make it to approximately 60 contests a season.

I wonder how many frequent flier miles he’s logged.

 
30 Rock & Queens

 
Alec Baldwin and Jerry Seinfeld on "30 Rock"

Last year, the Emmy Award winning “30 Rock” impressed audiences with guest appearances from Italian actress Isabella Rossellini and British actress Emily Mortimer. This year, NBC seems to be keeping it more in-house.

Anyone who watched the season premiere of the Emmy award winning show “30 Rock,” saw Jerry Seinfeld guest starring as himself. And later this season, former “Friends” star David Schwimmer will appear as an out-of-work actor turned mascot.

Both Seinfeld and Schwimmer have roots in Queens; Seinfeld attended Queens College and Schwimmer was born in Astoria.

Given that the show tapes at Long Island City’s Silvercup Studios, these guest stars will not only enjoy a return to their home network but to their Queens home.

 
My Girl’ Flushing Fete

 
Anna Chlumsky

Anna Chlumsky, who made a splash in the hit film ‘My Girl” in 1991, has kept to her acting, even taking part in an Astoria production three years ago.

But acting isn’t her only love, and this little girl has grown up to fall in love with Shaun So, an Army Reservist currently serving in Afghanistan, who is of Chinese descent.

Planning the wedding is giving the couple, who resides in Brooklyn, the best of both worlds. Anna, who is Catholic, told Conde Nast Traveler that the ceremony would be in her home church in Brooklyn, but the reception would be in a Chinese restaurant in the neighboring borough.

“Flushing is the place to go for good Chinese,” she said, and the couple should know – both of their fathers are chefs.

Mazel tov.

 
Pats’ Gal

 
Who would have guessed she was a football fan?

During October’s National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Flushing-born Fran Drescher, a breast cancer survivor, has been broadcast at NFL football stadiums promoting early detection of breast cancer.

Surprisingly, the Queens native, though she hails from Jets country, is actually a New England Patriots fan, according to an interview she gave to NFL.com.

She also said that she'd liuke to play nanny to Patriots quarterback Tom Brady.

Cue nasal laugh.
 

 
GTA IV

 
A graphic from Grand Theft Auto 4. Look familiar?



Queens gamers might gain some knowledge of their home borough playing the highly anticipated Grand Theft Auto IV set to come out early next year.

Rockstar Games revealed Liberty City’s high definition graphics during a press conference this month, which, with out a doubt, is meant to clone New Jack City.

They changed the names of the boroughs, Queens is Duke, Manhattan is Algonquin, Brooklyn is Broker and the Bronx is marked off the map in favor of Dirty Jersey, which has been renamed Alderney.

The story is set around NikoBellic, a Russian immigrant with a crime-ridden past as he searches for “The American Dream.” Sound familiar?

Oh, supervise the kids.
 

 

 

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